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Navy's only outstanding swimmer is Sophomore Al Gross, who will probably be entered in the 220 and 440 yard free styles. Having scored 16 points already in the current campaign, he is tied for third place with Fred Worthen of Dartmouth in the individual scoring of the Eastern Intercollegiate League...
...timid that he accepted protection from his two-year-old brother in fights with other children. But the mother responded to institute therapy, which encouraged mothers and children in outside interests. The boy, when last seen at age 15, was doing well at school, was a good swimmer, had a girl, showed every promise of leading a normal life...
...demonstrated in '35 at the Intercollegiates by a swimmer from Iowa who swam much faster than an ordinary breast-stroker,' said Ulen. "You can get in more leg movements than with the frog kick, so it's bound to be faster. One of my breast-strokers, "Sandy" Huston, can swim faster now with the fishtail kick." Mann's proposal has so far been regarded as illegal. The rule calls for the legs to separate and describe the same movement, but although the legs move in the same manner, they are kept together in the new kick...
...some non-Raffles qualities, which may not help him much. His precision verges on brusqueness: he's the sort, his men say, who keeps a dog and barks himself. He represents the gent-sport kind of soldier of which the East has too many. He was the best swimmer of his generation at Woolwich, is a fine golfer, a keen shot, a good skier (passed his "second class" tests at 40), an enthusiastic horseman (once whip of the Staff College drag), an experienced salmon-fisherman (in peacetime went all the way to Norway and Iceland to indulge in this...
...Ulen, as he sat talking to Freshman Coach Frank Vaughan after the meet need not have looked so glum, for his team has some truly great prospects. Once again Bill Drucker and Bus Curwen showed promise in their races, while in addition to this due, Ulen has a swimmer by the name of John Eusden whose performance Saturday. if it is any indication whatever, ought to put fear in the minds of every Ivy League swimming coach. For "Big John," after coming in fourth in the 50, made a comeback to finish second in the 100, and, in fact, almost...